Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

No one could have predicted…

Battle won, war still ongoing.

We still have time to mess this up!

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Saw this yesterday at the top of the page with all the great newspaper front-pages. If it had a picture of Tunch on it, it would be just about perfect.

  4. 4.

    Ash Can

    Bullshit! Health care reform is dead! Obama sold us out! FIRE RAHM!eleventyflail1

    /Chicken Little

  6. 6.

    ajr22

    OT. Just wondering, any front pagers on twitter besides mr. Cole? I need some more sanity in my feed, and less of chuck todd’s idiotic ramblings.

  8. 8.

    rob!

    I may order this

    No way. A tea-bagger sees that as the place to aim his homemade, Bible-verse-inscribed rifle.

  9. 9.

    KS in MA

    Nice shirt!

    I donated to Act Blue, btw, and I’m also going to send a few bucks to Louise Slaughter. Wouldn’t it send a good message if we raised some money for everybody whose offices have been vandalized (not to mention who’s been spat on, etc.)?

  10. 10.

    Brian J

    Hey, are all those who think that this bill and the various regulations and subsidies that go along with it are bound to cause a disaster willing to put their money/reputations/dignity where their mouths are?

    Perhaps we should set up some sort of challenge. I’ve been reading some blog posts over the last day, and even well before that, that say how this is a fiscal nightmare waiting to happen. Maybe so, but why not bet on it? If it does, in fact, lead to lots of bad things, you’ll be right, and someone on our side will do something that you want. But if you are wrong, you have to do something, like wear that shirt or something similar for a year (not the same one all year, just different copies of it) at all of your conservative meetings.

    What do do you think they’d say?

  11. 11.

    matt

    A friend pointed this out to me, but don’t we have Scott Brown to thank for this victory?

    Without his election forcing action on passing the senate bill, we never would have gotten any of this.

    THANKS SCOTTY

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    “How’s that hope & change workin’ for ya?” [Actual bumper sticker I’ve sighted.]
    “Purt’ good.” [My imagined response scrawl on the bottom.]

  15. 15.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    Too bad most murrikans and Jane hate “the bill” and will tidal wave the wingnuts into power, or else we should worry/not.

    MANDATE + STALIN + EXCISE TAX + MOOSILINI + sELLoUt = oBAMaLOo

  21. 21.

    The Dangerman

    @matt:

    Love the “Big Fucking Deal” shirt; may have to buy one and iron on an arrow (strategically pointed, of course, and not to be worn outside the house).

  22. 22.

    Brian J

    @DougJ:

    I am going to sound like a huge loser when I say this, but I just started using it yesterday, and as I’ve been responding to various established people, they respond back. It’s great! And I gotta tell you, when I woke up this morning to find that an established journalist is following my twitter account, it was very sweet.

  24. 24.

    KDP

    Some other cool Zazzle gear here.

    I rather like the “I vote for Obama…” and the date/time stamp with quotes on the back.

  27. 27.

    Anne Laurie

    @matt:

    A friend pointed this out to me, but don’t we have Scott Brown to thank for this victory? Without his election forcing action on passing the senate bill, we never would have gotten any of this.
    __
    THANKS SCOTTY

    On a t-shirt with Brown’s famous Naked Cosmo Spread, of course!

  28. 28.

    JCT

    Really guys — NOW we know why the Republicans were screaming bloody murder trying to derail this bill (cue the hysterical orange guy screaming on the floor of the house the other night).

    This current scenario is their worst nightmare. Delicious.

  29. 29.

    KDP

    FYWP

    Particularly the quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln that “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” I thought that was PT Barnum. Even so…

    Edit comment told me I was not allowed to edit my own comment, and the timer says I still have over 1:30.

    FYWP (or maybe Firefox? I’ve been having a lot of browser hangs since their last update)

  31. 31.

    Chyron HR

    Universal health care? Give this Obama fellow a Nobel Peace Prize!

    What, really? Never mind.

  34. 34.

    aimai

    I just read the WaPo article about how the end game played out. After Obama and his team had made every argument possible Altmire still voted no, and Obama went back one last time to convince him:

    On Friday morning, Altmire e-mailed Emanuel. Despite the party on St. Patrick’s Day at the White House, a sit-down with Emanuel, a few more phone calls from the president and three from Cabinet-level officials, Altmire planned to announce that he would vote no.__
    “Don’t do it,” Emanuel punched back on his BlackBerry. At 4 p.m., Altmire released his statement and at 7:30 Obama called once more.__
    “I want to give you something to think about before the vote,” the president said gently into the phone. “Picture yourself on Monday morning. You wake up and look at the paper. It’s the greatest thing Congress has done in 50 years. And you were on the wrong team.”

    Wonder how Altmire feels this morning?

    aimai

  37. 37.

    Ash Can

    @aimai: Great story.

    Altmire’s being primaried by a labor guy. Coincidentally, the Citizen’s United decision opens the political funding floodgates for labor unions as well as corporations. To paraphrase another famous ‘Burgher, can you say “oh shit?”

  38. 38.

    Cat

    Is it really historic when we are the 57th* country in the world to enact legislation that puts forth that health care is a basic human right?

    *This number maybe made up, but is sure feels like we are the last western country to do this.

  39. 39.

    JCT

    @aimai:

    Wonder how Altmire feels this morning?

    However he feels today will pale compared to how he feels when he is voted out of office. That’s a slam-dunk.

  41. 41.

    burnspbesq

    If I wear that t-shirt to the gym in Orange County, no way am I going near the free weights. The risk of a bunch of teabaggers doing a Stafon Johnson on me would just be too great.

  42. 42.

    Dreggas

    @burnspbesq:

    OC California or Florida? Of course they are probably interchangeable, which is why I am happy to live up in L.A. County again (California).

  46. 46.

    qwerty42

    @aimai: Wonder how Altmire feels this morning?
    What was he thinking? That this will all be forgotten? What is his district like?

  47. 47.

    bemused

    @aimai:
    Ok. So you think she was pretty straight on the facts in this piece vs what she normally does? I’ve seen her on tv & was not a bit impressed.

  50. 50.

    aimai

    Bemused,
    I don’t know. I’ve really hated Ceci Connolley and her work for a long, long time. This is the first article ever where I can’t quite see where the knife is. The article is very admiring and there’s relatively little backhanding–however I think it could easily have been written in such a way that it could have been published with a different ending if the Democrats had lost. That’s very much her style–she’s a kiss up/kick down kind of writer and as long as I’ve been reading her she’s been sucking up to the Republicans. I hope this article as the start of a sea change as media types like Connolley readjust their screens for a new view of Dems which is flattering. If they decide that Obama is their new macho dream, they’ll be as forgiving to him and his party as they were to Bush.

    aimai

  51. 51.

    Leelee for Obama

    @Dreggas: This is so full of awesome. I’m bookmarking it so I can show the little ones when they aren’t so little!!!!

  54. 54.

    R-Jud

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck:

    Hitler was worse than Hitler, but not as bad as Disco.

    I was enjoying that hot chocolate, Stuck, until you made it come out my goddamn nose. You people have ruined so many of my fucking keyboards, it’s unreal.

  55. 55.

    wmd

    I think we need a

    That Hopey/Changy thing seems to be working out just fine

    meme as well.

  58. 58.

    bemused

    @aimai:
    I’ve printed it out to read & then give to my 90 yr old father in law.
    I had to laugh at “kiss up/kick down” writers. It’s a pretty big club in msm. Hopefully, there will be more factual reporting on Dems & R’s alike. It would be a nice change but I won’t hold my breath.

  59. 59.

    CalD

    That’s a pretty good T-shirt. But I would not put it in the same class as the “The Revolution will be supervised” mug, featuring Jabba the Tunch.

  60. 60.

    AxelFoley

    Weeeeeeee are the champions, my friends
    And weeeeee’lllll keep on fighting ’til the end…

  61. 61.

    chrome agnomen

    how about a shirt that says, “the right voted against health care and all they got was obama’s huge package shoved down their throats”?

  63. 63.

    Porlock Junior

    @aimai:
    Kinda like Chris Matthews? I don’t watch him ever, so all I know is from blog reports, but I read his stuff for a long time, starting in the SF Chronicle, and he was the purest weathervane I’ve seen. For a brief time he even wrote some good stuff, when the Dems were doing well. Then he quickly reverted to Republican-kissing, and got his TV gig soon after.

  64. 64.

    Ricky

    I voted for Obama and all I got was the death of personal responsibility.

    or

    I voted for Obama and all I got was an unhealthier America.

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